Category: Africa

Feds settle dispute in St. Cloud school district case involving Somalis

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Looks like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding trial, succeeded in getting another school district in hot water with the federal departments of Education and Justice.     You might want to review what precipitated the problem for the district here and see here that CAIR got involved.

From Minnesota Public Radio this week:

St. Paul, Minn. — The Departments of Education and Justice have reached an agreement with the Owatonna Public Schools involving allegations of race and national origin harassment.

The federal agencies became involved after tensions between white and Somali students escalated into a fight in 2009 at Owatonna High School involving 11 Owatonna students.

In a statement released Tuesday, the Departments of Education and Justice said an investigation found Owatonna public schools “meted out disproportionate discipline for the students involved in the November 2009 incident and that the district’s policies, procedures and trainings were not adequately addressing harassment against Somali-American students.”

After a 17-month investigation, the district has agreed to take all reasonable steps to ensure that students enrolled are not subject to harassment or discrimination on the basis of race, color or national origin. The district also agreed to respond promptly and appropriately to all reports of harassment.

[….]

Tapper [Superintendent Tom Tapper] says the district is in the process of training all faculty, staff and students on discrimination and harassment. Officials also agreed to meet with high school Somali students to discuss their concerns about harassment.

What!  Federal investigation over not providing a WELCOMING environment!

About 17 percent of the Owatonna school district is minority students.

The district must report back to the Justice Department by Aug. 1 on the steps it has taken.

The St. Cloud school district is also the target of a federal investigation over accusations of not providing a welcoming environment for minority students.

Check out more strife in St. Cloud, here.  And, learn  more about Muslim agitators in St. Cloud, here.

Comment worth noting: you are inflicted with chronic cynicism

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Reader Mary posted this comment to my post yesterday on the immigrant court system in the US.

You appear to have fallen off the cliff to chronic cynicism. People are desperate and are forced to leave children behind. Who are we to judge? I, for one, have never been faced with these decisions.

Yes, I admit, the more I learn about the worldwide refugee industry, the more cynical I get.  But, Mary, please answer my questions, and the questions in the minds of many who read the story about the poor woman from Cameroon who spent 5 years wrangling with our court system before being granted asylum.

First and foremost, how does a poor third worlder (not just this woman, but all of them!) with virtually no English manage to acquire the tens of thousands of dollars required to make a trip halfway (or more!) around the world, through several countries that you and I couldn’t easily get into to arrive on the US border and know to ask for asylum?

Who is paying the trafficker, the airlines, the passport forgers, the lawyers?

And, I suppose I shouldn’t make a cultural judgment, but I will!   What mother leaves her children alone in a country she now claims is dangerous for her family to take a risky trip halfway around the world on the off chance she will be granted asylum in the US?  Was she just trying to save her own skin?  Who told her that asylum might be possible; who put her up to it?

Mary, you suggest I’m a chronic cynic.  Tell me how can you be so chronically gullible?

P.S.  Mary, I am sure you are a decent well-meaning and good-hearted person, but it’s time to see that “humanitarianism” is merely a smokescreen for, in my view, a devious political plan that uses poor people (and people with good hearts) to accomplish its goals.

Toronto again, this time Somali terrorists

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In my previous post I told you about the Ethiopian political demonstrations yesterday in Toronto and now I see that Canadian authorities think as many as twenty former refugees to Canada have joined the Jihad in Africa.   Just think how boring Canada would be without all this multicultural fun to liven things up.

From the National Post:

TORONTO — About 20 Canadians have travelled to Somalia to join Al-Shabab, a federal official said two weeks after a Toronto man was arrested as he was allegedly leaving to enlist in the al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group.

As many as three of the Canadians may have been killed so far, the official added, although such deaths are hard to verify because of the armed conflict and the lack of a diplomatic corps in Somalia.

The figures suggest the scale of Canada’s problem with Al-Shabab recruitment is comparable to that experienced by the United States and Europe, which also have sizable populations of ethnic Somalis.

The Al-Shabab threat was underscored late last month when police arrested Mohamed Hersi at Toronto’s Pearson airport. The RCMP alleged he was on his way to Somalia “to join Al-Shabab and participate in their terrorist activities.”

The 25-year-old former Toronto security guard, who is scheduled to have a bail hearing on Wednesday, was the first Canadian to be charged with terrorism offences related to Al-Shabab, but the group has been actively recruiting members in Canada for at least two years.

So what is the big worry, they are fighting and dying in Africa right?

The RCMP is concerned about the potential for violence in Canada should the Al-Shabab recruits return home with the indoctrination and the weapons training necessary to carry out terrorist attacks. A Canadian Security Intelligence Service report recently obtained by the National Post under the Access to Information Act calls foreign travel an “important part in the radicalization process” of Islamist extremists.

“Those who have jihad experience are often transformed by it and return to their home countries enthused with a zeal to convince others to share their new-found desire to defend Islam,” reads the report, marked Secret. “This combination of enthusiasm, charisma and … tales of jihad can be a potent mix that can be used to draw the vulnerable into violence. The influence that these veterans can have in their communities is significant.”

I’ve written ad nauseam about the American, Canadian and European Somalis who have thumbed their noses at the good life in the West and gone off to Africa to fight the Jihad.  Please just use our search function for more such posts.

Ethiopians protest in Toronto

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Isn’t diversity just beautiful! Why the heck do we keep doing this—-allowing every African group into the West (are we bringing Libyans next*?) so we can pay for their protests as they continue their centuries-old ethnic squabbles on our streets.  Here is news from Canada.  I swear I read the story twice trying to figure out who were the good guys and who were the bad guys back in Ethiopia before I realized I didn’t care—but I suspect there is a Muslim element.

Wouldn’t it just make sense to let them fight out their civil wars in Africa?

*Oh, and Canada will likely get its Libyans too!

Ex-CIA agent says Libyan refugees are coming to New Jersey

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Fox News anchor Judge Andrew Napolitano heard from his guest last evening that the Obama State Department has already decided to bring Libyan refugees to the US.  (Hat tip: Brenda Walker)

US Report (Watch the clip here entitled: Bringing Al-Qaeda to the US):

Ex CIA agent Wayne Simmons appeared on ‘Freedom Watch’ on Monday and he dropped a bombshell. Simmons told Judge Andrew Napolitano during the judge’s nightly show on Fox Business Network Libyan refugees will be flown to New Jersey.

Napolitano, a Libertarian, believes the NATO no-fly zone President Barack Obama justified on a “humanitarian basis” is an unconstitutional action. The judge has also been critical of President George W. Bush.

Simmons said the US Dept. of State has a massive asylum initiative.

That initiative has not always gone well.

Simmons said that’s how one of the most dangerous gangs, MS-13, came to the U.S. Simmons said there are also “17 known gangs” from Somalia with a presence here.

“Libyans are on the list,” said Simmons. “It is underway and it won’t be long before C-17s or commercial jets arrive in Ft. Dix.”

We don’t know if a final decision has been made, but we reported exactly one month ago that Human Rights First was calling for an emergency action by the US government to get Libyans to America ASAP (and expedite the security process!).

We also know that Europe is being overrun with young North African men, here (Fall of Rome?).  Gadaffi’s joke on the West!

Hey, Judge Napolitano, I love you but here you are wrong:

Napolitano said Libya will produce “a refugee crisis no one saw coming.”

Samantha Power knew!

An afterthought: Anyone concerned with bringing North African men to New Jersey should contact their US Senators and Congressman right now.  Also, New Jersey folks need to tell Governor Christie to say NO!  Remember the Ft. Dix Six terror plot (one was a Muslim refugee who arrived at Ft. Dix during Bill Clinton’s Bosnian war).